Started collecting back in 2001: I bought 2 Bandai 1/55 Macross chunky monkey reissues and was pretty happy, because I never owned a valkyrie as a kid. Afterwards, I acquired a complete set of the 8 inch Exo-Squad reissues of the destroids from eBay, and some of the Crapnami Masterpiece & super poseable figures.
Then 2 1/2 years ago, my "addiction" started when I bought my first Yamato 1/48 perfect transformation valkyrie. Expensive as hell, but the toy was just so damned impressive. I now own 8 of 'em ....
Along the way, I got back into Transformers as well. Luckily, I bought some vintage G1 toys BEFORE the movie hype last summer.